If evolution is true ...
mmmm if evolution is true - how come there are so many humans that have been left behind????
Where does the ability to love come from?
Perhaps a silly and too basic a question, but I wonder if you have sat and thought about the question: "Where does the ability to love come from?" There is a new film out about Charles Darwin's life and of course his theory of evolution. The theory (and that is all it is!) describes a dog eat dog existence - where only the fittest survive. In all this the theory fails to address the existence of love. I'm thinking about the type of sacrifical love that we see clearly in the life of Jesus Christ. The type of love that on a good day we might manage to emulate. The Bible of course is absolutely clear about the source of love. Dear friends (says John) let us love one another, for love comes from God. And more clearly goes on to say: God is love! In the New Testament there are 3 words for love: Philia (family loyalty) Eros: (physical intimate love) And Agape: (sacrificial, life transforming, Christ like love) All these are gift from God but it is the th...
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good one!
I don't even understand the question.
I've already covered the issue with you that what YOU mean by "evolution" is something drastically different than what an evolutionary biologist means...
but even then, working with your definition, I still don't get it.
What do you mean by "left behind"? Left behind what exactly?
Is it possible that this question is simply based on your misunderstanding of exactly what the theory of evolution claims?
fristly this is a joke - I wouldn't hang anti evolutionist theory or pro evolutionist theory on it!
not sure if you are serious that you don't understand it. but let us say that there is a theory that says that man evolved directly from apes (as opposed to from an ape like creature)- the question would then be: how come apes still exist have some been left behind?(ie not evolved). Well this joke portrays an ape who believes that apes (being the superior being) may have directly evolved from human beings and he is wondering if that is so how come there are still some human beings left?
Actually I have just been on the ape's blog and a fellow blogger has corrected his thinking - saying that the new theory is that apes didn't evolve directly from human beings - but from a human being like being. He is out there looking for the missing link - which he is sure he will find sometime within the next 150 years.
Nohm please forgive my sense of humour - even if it doesn't seem to make much sense.
"Is it possible that this question is simply based on your misunderstanding of exactly what the theory of evolution claims?"
Just replace "question" with "joke".
Neil, does it bother you at all that what you think the theory of evolution is, whether it's right or wrong (and we'll even assume "wrong" for this discussion), is completely at odds with what the actual theory of evolution is?
If I said I didn't believe in Christianity because I've never seen Moses rise from the dead in Herod's temple, or because I have no evidence that Paul and John were ever paid 30 pieces of silver to preach to Job on the mountain of Judea... wouldn't your head spin just a bit? Wouldn't you say, "Hey Nohm! None of that makes any sense at all!"
To be honest, I originally thought your joke had something to do with the Left Behind novels. There isn't any such thing as "left behind", as you use it, in evolution.
I can't find any comment from you regarding eveolution on my blog - could be that I didn't publish it - if it had any bad language or offensive remarks in it. Other than that I can't undeerstand why i didn't publish.